Pompeii Porn

September, 2000

A marble statue of Pan copulating with a goat. Fantastic phallic tiles inscribed with the legend Here Lies Happiness. Subtle frescoes of lovemaking. Hilarious images of Priapus weighing his genitals. Such lust-inspired talismans were hidden from sight first by nature (the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.) and then, after being unearthed in the 1700s, by man. A priest who saw the objects condemned Pompeii, saying "the entire city was given to the most sordid impropriety, and so from God...